Questioner: Yours is altogether a subjective view, while science
tries to describe everything in objective terms. Is this
contradiction inevitable?

Nisargadatta: The confusion is apparent and purely verbal. What
is, is. It is neither subjective nor objective. Matter and mind
are not separate, they are aspects of one energy. Look at the
mind as a function of matter and you have science; look at matter
as the product of the mind and you have religion.

Questioner: But what is true? What comes first, mind or matter?

Nisargadatta: Neither comes first. for neither appears alone.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from I Am That, posted to
NondualitySalon

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our
method of questioning.

- Werner Heisenberg

The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the
totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions
does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind
such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our
self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of
anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of
fallacy.

- Albert Einstein

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of
consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

- Stanislav Grof

Cosmic Consciousness is impossible to describe, partly because
describing involves words and the state is one in which there
were no words. My attempts at description here originated from
reflecting on Cosmic Consciousness soon after it had passed and
while there was still some `taste' of the event remaining.

Perhaps the most significant element of Cosmic Consciousness was
the absolute knowingness that it involves. This knowingness is a
deep understanding that occurs without words. I was certain that
the universe was one whole and that it was benign and loving at
its ground.